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Here Are All the Apps Pre-Installed on the Apple Vision Pro
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They'll eventually get updates. Must've been a developer shortage.
Hmmm that’s not a lot of productivity apps for a spatial computer.
They don't even have normal look around (street view) for a majority of the US, and only a tiny fraction of the 3D coverage that Google has.
Instead of imagining, you can connect a VR headset to a PC and use Google Earth VR.
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Downvoted. You really can't see the bigger picture, eh? Launch day is one day. This platform has 30 years ahead of it.
App Store to the rescue. One million apps available to choose from.
Are you sure you wanna use numbers with your eyes?
The Vision Pro comes with a number of Apple apps that are also available on the iPhone and the iPad. We've seen some of the apps over the past few months in tidbits of information that Apple has provided, but the Vision Pro technical specifications that went live today alongside pre-orders list every app that the device comes with.
Pre-installed apps optimized for Vision Pro:
- App Store
- Encounter Dinosaurs
- Files
- Freeform
- Keynote
- Messages
- Mindfulness
- Music
- Notes
- Photos
- Safari
- Settings
- Tips
- TV
Pre-installed apps not optimized for Vision Pro:
- Books
- Calendar
- Home
- Maps
- News
- Podcasts
- Reminders
- Shortcuts
- Stocks
- Voice Memos
Curiously, while there is a Keynote app that's pre-installed, Apple does not list the other iWork apps like Pages and Numbers. Find My is not on Apple's list, nor are the Health, Clock, Contacts, and Weather apps. FaceTime is not on the list, but the fine print confirms that there is indeed a FaceTime app and also a Capture app for taking video and photos on the device.
There may be some Apple apps that are not pre-installed but able to be downloaded from the App Store after launch, and there will be a number of third-party apps designed for the Vision Pro.
We'll be sharing a list of Vision Pro apps closer to when the headset debuts, and it is also worth noting that many iOS apps will run on the device automatically unless developers opt out.
Article Link: Here Are All the Apps Pre-Installed on the Apple Vision Pro
Seems like Apple doesn't expect a Vision Pro user to care about their health, know what time of day it it, socialize, or allowed to go outdoors! 🤣
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All I know is what I see in the walk throughs, but it appears they'll work as well as a self levitating iPad might... I expect the map will be functional, but will just be a floating window.
If the news about the headset's virtual keyboard being "not optimal" are true, I'm not sure who'd want to work on a word processor or spreadsheet. 😅
If I’m working on the Vision Pro, I do want to use Pages, and other apps just like it do on my iPad and Mac.
Spatial computer that’s supposed to change the way we work? Then it needs to be able to support and run all the apps we use.
Can you upload your own content to the “downloads” section of the TV app, just as you can with the iPhone? Can you access video content stored on a networked Mac (a la home sharing) just as you can with the Apple TV?
What I want from AVP is not really like the iPad; what I want is more like a Mac.
In fact, I also want the iPad to be more like a Mac.
I want this to be great for productivity; even if it also needs a keyboard and mouse. But it seems like yet-another-content-consumption device (or at least that seems to be the focus).
In fact, I also want the iPad to be more like a Mac.
I want this to be great for productivity; even if it also needs a keyboard and mouse. But it seems like yet-another-content-consumption device (or at least that seems to be the focus).
It can’t even reliably distinguish 15 from 50 when I set a timer.
I guess you're expected to screen-mirror your MacBook for real productivity. Computing across space!
I wonder if the Files app will be 3D like in Jurassic Park:
It is pretty disappointing that Apple has not invested more effort in building optimized first-party apps for the Vision Pro - especially given the selection of third-party apps looks pretty limited. I agree with the earlier poster that Apple's arrogant attitude towards developers may be coming to bite them - they're becoming what Microsoft was around 2000.
I don't really care about having a large iPad floating in space a few feet away from me, running iPad apps - I would like to see apps that are specifically optimized for AR. Apple has invested so much effort and money into this - would it have killed them to have a few engineers off on the side building a native version of Maps, for instance?
Seriously, Maps has a 3D rendering mode. Are you telling me that, when you view a satellite photo in 3D in Maps on the Vision Pro, it is going to be a 3D rendering projected onto a flat surface in AR? What a joke!
I don't really care about having a large iPad floating in space a few feet away from me, running iPad apps - I would like to see apps that are specifically optimized for AR. Apple has invested so much effort and money into this - would it have killed them to have a few engineers off on the side building a native version of Maps, for instance?
Seriously, Maps has a 3D rendering mode. Are you telling me that, when you view a satellite photo in 3D in Maps on the Vision Pro, it is going to be a 3D rendering projected onto a flat surface in AR? What a joke!
Hilarious how so many people comment how dumb this is and how nobody will buy it and deduce that it will flop and be DOA. By the 3rd generation, they'll be camping in line to get one! This is is already cool, and I can't imagine how much better it will be with further refinement.
I don't see this replacing my MBP, nor my iPhone. Those have a specific use that I just can't see this replacing IMOH. There's no way I'm walking around outside my house with goggles strapped to my face. I'm old enough that I refuse to see my world through the lens of a VR headset. BUT within my house in my leisure time after work, I have no problem walking around with this on for hours. PLUS, working from home, this would be an amazing way to decompress using the landscapes to mellow-out in while doing notes or basic work tasks. I think us people who are inside our house would really enjoy it for that feature alone honestly. Writing my notes while I'm in Joshua Tree or lakeside is going to be freaking amazing. Now the hard part, patiently waiting for Gen 3/4...
I don't see this replacing my MBP, nor my iPhone. Those have a specific use that I just can't see this replacing IMOH. There's no way I'm walking around outside my house with goggles strapped to my face. I'm old enough that I refuse to see my world through the lens of a VR headset. BUT within my house in my leisure time after work, I have no problem walking around with this on for hours. PLUS, working from home, this would be an amazing way to decompress using the landscapes to mellow-out in while doing notes or basic work tasks. I think us people who are inside our house would really enjoy it for that feature alone honestly. Writing my notes while I'm in Joshua Tree or lakeside is going to be freaking amazing. Now the hard part, patiently waiting for Gen 3/4...
This is an interesting point. In an AR environment, I could imagine the little bit of extra space around a circular icon could lend itself to being more aware of your surroundings (albeit very slightly) than the larger squarish icons.
But in my opinion, the soft-square icon shapes are synonymous with iOS at this point. The shape of the app icons is perhaps the biggest mainstay from the pre-iOS 7 versions of the OS, and I assume that's because the shape is simultaneously iconic (unintended) and generic.
Having said that, Apple is a stickler for visual continuity. Wasn't one of the last MacOS updates about making the dock look more similar to the iPad's?
And iOS has become much more like Android (or even Windows Phone!!) in the last few years, so I wouldn't put it past Apple to allow users to customize their choice of icon shape, with soft-squares being the default.
But would Apple really want to redesign all of their app icons across multiple platforms at the same time?
Likely they’re holding out on some of these apps to be ‘optimised’ in order to make them headline announcements for visionOS 2. But it is a bit baffling that they wouldn't just put the legwork in now, whilst their yet-to-be successful new product category is launching, to much skepticism, in a niche market, with few developers on board, and a slew of competitors who have shown there’s little interest in VR. I would think you’d want to set yourself up with the best chance of success from day 1.
it will make you walk off a cliff like it did when first released for iPhone.
Just Like Old Road Runner cartoons, Let’s paint some tunnels on the side of walls
$4K device. No calculator.
The Vision Pro comes with a number of Apple apps that are also available on the iPhone and the iPad. We've seen some of the apps over the past few months in tidbits of information that Apple has provided, but the Vision Pro technical specifications that went live today alongside pre-orders list every app that the device comes with.
Pre-installed apps optimized for Vision Pro:
- App Store
- Encounter Dinosaurs
- Files
- Freeform
- Keynote
- Messages
- Mindfulness
- Music
- Notes
- Photos
- Safari
- Settings
- Tips
- TV
Pre-installed apps not optimized for Vision Pro:
- Books
- Calendar
- Home
- Maps
- News
- Podcasts
- Reminders
- Shortcuts
- Stocks
- Voice Memos
Curiously, while there is a Keynote app that's pre-installed, Apple does not list the other iWork apps like Pages and Numbers. Find My is not on Apple's list, nor are the Health, Clock, Contacts, and Weather apps. FaceTime is not on the list, but the fine print confirms that there is indeed a FaceTime app and also a Capture app for taking video and photos on the device.
There may be some Apple apps that are not pre-installed but able to be downloaded from the App Store after launch, and there will be a number of third-party apps designed for the Vision Pro.
We'll be sharing a list of Vision Pro apps closer to when the headset debuts, and it is also worth noting that many iOS apps will run on the device automatically unless developers opt out.
Article Link: Here Are All the Apps Pre-Installed on the Apple Vision Pro
